Kim Il Zong is a South Korean prospect discovered by the Seahawks' Far East scouting department. He has been signed to save the Seahawks' season.

A one-man team, he is capable of playing all 22 positions even though he is only 5 feet 6, and he has a social conscience so large he does 100 hours of community service per week.

He is also a spoof, something spawned from the mind of ESPN anchorman Kenny Mayne, a former quarterback at Thomas Jefferson High School in Federal Way, Wenatchee Valley CC and Nevada-Las Vegas, who does a lighthearted feature each week for ESPN's "NFL Sunday Countdown" show. The segment featuring Kim will air Dec. 1.

Kim is played by Jongsoo Kim, a 35-year-old cameraman who emigrated from South Korea nine years ago, and for the past two has worked for ESPN in Bristol, Conn. He portrays the imaginary football player signed for $1 billion because the Seahawks want to win right away.

The feature will include footage taped before the Sonics-Magic game Tuesday night, which shows Gary Payton and Brent Barry greeting Kim Il Zong, and Payton asking Kim to call him. The segment also includes a snippet from Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament. Ament describes Kim's vocal skills at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, which so impressed the band they want him to replace Eddie Vedder as vocalist.

The segment is one of Mayne's many offbeat ideas that have been filmed this year. In one, 49ers wide receiver Terrell Owens portrayed a comic who told football-based jokes that aren't really funny, yet had the audience rolling. In this week's segment, 49ers players will conduct football drills in a grocery store, using turkeys instead of footballs.

In the skit involving the Seahawks, Kim is supposed to help Shawn Springs with his foreign-language skills. He visits Pike Place Market, where he warns the fish throwers not to bruise the souls of the salmon.